In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated metrics, we lack the ability to pinpoint data from any particular website. But perhaps even more challenging is analyzing the data once collected and drawing actionable conclusions. In the future we’ll talk more about these challenges and how we’re addressing them, but in this post we’d like to share how some of the metrics that are fundamental to how our users experience the browser have improved throughout the year.
If you dont mind updating manually Icraven is a pretty good port. It’s on GitHub but they are working on a Fdroid release
You can use ffupdater to get updates of various FF forks, including Iceraven, and other browsers.
Thanks, that’s neat!
There’s also Obtainium, which might be better to use if you need to update other stuff aside from browsers, that’s not on F-Droid. Better to have just one of them running in the background instead of both if them.
never thought a firefox fork to be faster than chrome in android
It’s not good, developer has no guarantee for updates and the app is notably left outdated for months.
That’s literally not true in the slightest. I’ve had at least two updates in the past month.
friend i’ve been tracking that browser from 2 years now and it really has a bad update cycle, i gave up on that browser due to same reason.
“Gave up on” and “tracking for 2 years now” in the same sentence…you’re sending mixed messages.
English is not my primary language, it’s still raw pardon it convyed certain message that i basically don’t use that browser anymore due to updates even the developer agrees on this.
Thanks will try it. And I try to use obtanium, it’s really good for this kind of stuff, checks and downloads fr github
Edit: tried it, it’s faster it seems. But it has the same problem as the regular ff - if there is a firefox purple notification on the screen the rest of the ui is locked. You can swipe, sure, but for some reason this is infuriating
Iceraven is faster than vanilla FF, but updates are slow, this can hurt your security
I’ve noticed updates getting a lot more frequent. I hope they can keep this upand grow their user base.
Yeah, I’m on their github page rn, and I see that, last time I used it, updates took months to arrive… Now it’s just a week or two 👍